--- title: "The open alternative to Claude Whiteboards – Diagrams from any agent" description: "Claude Whiteboards is a live board in Claude. Display holds diagrams that Cursor, Codex or Claude Code draw from your code. Reviewers need no Claude account." --- # The open alternative to Claude Whiteboards for diagrams from any agent Your coding agent draws the diagram from your code and publishes it to Display, as HTML or as Mermaid in Markdown. Your team comments on it at one URL without a Claude account. Display is not a drawing board. [Publish a diagram free](https://app.display.dev/) · Free plan: 3 gated documents · No card required · Private by default Kestrel's auth migration architecture diagram, open on Display. The version history lists four versions at the same URL. Claude Code published v1 for Ana Ruiz. Codex published v2 for Ben Okafor. Priya Shah edited v3 on the page. Cursor published v4 for Maya Lind. Version 4 answers Priya's comment “Where does the session token go?” ## Should I use Claude Whiteboards or Display? Use Display when a coding agent makes the diagram from your code. Cursor, Codex or Claude Code reads the repo and publishes the diagram to one URL, as HTML or as Mermaid in Markdown. Reviewers sign in to Display with a one-time password and need no Claude account. Keep Claude Whiteboards when your team wants to brainstorm on one board at the same time. You talk, type or sketch, and Claude arranges the board. Display is not a drawing board and has no whiteboard today. You can brainstorm in Claude Whiteboards and keep the diagram that your team reviews in Display. ## Claude Whiteboards and Display, side by side Display holds the diagram that your agent makes, so your team can review it. Claude Whiteboards is a live board for a brainstorm. | | Claude Whiteboards | Display | |---|---|---| | **Other AIs can publish into it** | No – Claude only | Yes – Any agent | | **Diagram drawn from your code** | Not documented – Works from the board | Yes – By your coding agent | | **Free plan** | No – Paid plans only | Yes – $0, 3 gated documents | | **Reviewers without a Claude account** | Not documented – People invited by email need one | Yes – No Claude account needed | | **Publish a file you already have** | No – No board import | Yes – HTML or Markdown, download any time | | **One price for the team** | No – From $20 per seat a month | Yes – $79 a month, up to 150 Editors and Contributors | | **Comments** | Not documented | Yes – On text on the page | | **Version history** | Not documented | Yes – On Solo and higher plans | | **Live board for many people** | Yes | No – One editor at a time | | **Sketch, voice and pictures** | Yes | No | | **Turn a brainstorm into a doc or deck** | Yes | Partly – Your agent publishes it | Checked 11 November 2026. Sources: [Get started with Claude Whiteboards](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/18324319-get-started-with-claude-whiteboards) · [Share artifacts](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9547008-share-artifacts) · [Artifacts admin guide](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16994751-artifacts-admin-guide-for-team-and-enterprise-plans) · [Claude pricing](https://claude.com/pricing) ## One place for the diagrams your agents make A board leaves Claude as a PNG. A Mermaid diagram sits in the repo. An HTML diagram is on one laptop. Display holds each diagram at one URL, with one way to share. - **Before:** Split by tool - **After:** One place for every agent Company docs open for everyone at Kestrel with Google or Microsoft sign-in. ## Open to every agent and everyone who reviews the diagram “Open” means three things you can check today. - **Any agent publishes** – Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or any other agent publishes the diagram through the CLI, MCP or the API. - **The diagram stays a source file** – A diagram is an HTML file, or a Mermaid block in a Markdown file. You can download the source at any time. - **Reviewers need no Claude account** – Reviewers sign in to Display with a one-time password. Viewers and Commenters are unlimited on every plan. ## Edit any document in-line. Fix any line right where you read it. 1. Select Edit on the page 2. Change it on the page 3. Save – the next version at the same URL ## Share each diagram with the right people A diagram stays private until you share it. Then choose who can open it – one diagram, a folder or a whole Space. - **Private by default** – Every diagram stays private until you share it with people and groups. - **One-click sign-in for colleagues** – On Solo and higher plans, colleagues use the Google or Microsoft account they already have. Reviewers need no seat. - **Invite people outside your company** – Invite clients and partners by email, and give each one a role: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor or Editor. - **Know who opened it** – On Team and Business, see who opened which diagram, and when, before you follow up. ## Claude Whiteboards or Display? Choose by how the diagram is made and who has to review it. ### Use Claude Whiteboards if - Your team wants to brainstorm on one board at the same time. - You want to talk, type or sketch, and add pictures and videos. - You want Claude to arrange the board and turn it into a doc or a deck. - You want to send the board to Lucid, Miro or Zoho Vani. ### Use Display if - Your coding agent draws the diagram from the code in your repo. - Your team also uses Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT or another AI. - People without a Claude account need to review the diagram. - You need comments on the diagram and each new version at the same URL. > “We gave it to a few people, expecting the super users who’d been asking for a publishing platform. We didn’t realize the whole business would pick it up.” > > – Rory Powell, IT and AI Ops Manager, Kogan.com **Start with one diagram – private by default: $0.** The Free plan includes 3 gated documents and 50 MB of storage. No credit card required. Viewers and Commenters are unlimited on every plan. [Publish a diagram free](https://app.display.dev/) ## A full workspace behind every URL ### Spaces and folders A Space for every team, with folders inside and its own permissions. ### Search everything you can open You and your agents can search every doc you can open. ### Work across every agent and plan Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, on personal or company plans. One doc, one URL. ### Build internal apps (private beta) Develop applications that pull data from your sources. ### Connect your data sources (private beta) Pull data from the sources your team already uses. ## Before you choose between Claude Whiteboards and Display ### What does Display cost if I already pay for Claude? The Free plan costs $0 and includes 3 gated documents and 50 MB of storage, without version history. Solo costs $12 a month, or $9 a month billed yearly, and adds version history. Team costs $79 a month, or $59 billed yearly, for up to 150 Editors and Contributors. Viewers and Commenters are unlimited on every plan. ### Who can open a diagram? A new diagram is private by default. You can share it with people and groups, open it to everyone in your company, or make it public. People sign in with a one-time password before a private or company diagram opens. Solo and higher plans add Google and Microsoft sign-in. Enterprise adds SAML sign-in, for example with Okta. ### Does Display use my content to train AI models? No. We do not use customer content to train or fine-tune any AI or machine-learning model. ### Does Display have a whiteboard? No. Display has no drawing board today, and one person edits a diagram at a time. For a live board that many people change together, use Claude Whiteboards. A Display whiteboard is planned, and it has no date. Today, Display holds the diagrams that your agent makes, as HTML or as Mermaid in Markdown. ### Can people outside our company comment? Yes. Invite them by email to the diagram or its folder with the Commenter role or a higher role. They sign in with a one-time password, Google or Microsoft, and they do not join your organization. A person with the Viewer role can read but cannot comment. ### How does my team review a diagram? A reviewer selects text on the page, for example a heading or a caption beside the diagram, and adds a comment. Comments attach to text, not to shapes. Your agent reads the diagram and its comments, and publishes the next version at the same URL. On Solo and higher plans, you can open and restore earlier versions. ### Can I move a Claude Whiteboard to Display? Not as a board. Claude exports a board as a PNG image. Give the image to your agent, ask it to draw the diagram again as HTML or Mermaid, and publish the result to Display. ### Which diagram formats does Display show? Two. A Markdown file can hold Mermaid blocks, for example flowcharts, sequence diagrams and ER diagrams, and each block shows as a diagram. An HTML file can hold an SVG or a D3 diagram, and it stays as your agent made it. ### Which agents work with Display? Any agent that writes HTML or Markdown, for example Cursor, Codex, Claude Code and ChatGPT. Agents connect through the Display MCP server, the CLI or the API. Each person can use a different agent on the same diagram. ### Is Display open source? No. “Open” means three things. Any agent can publish to Display. Anyone you choose can open a diagram without a seat. You can download the source file of any diagram at any time. ## Give every agent one place to publish diagrams Connect Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or ChatGPT through the Display MCP server, the CLI or the API, and publish your first diagram. [Publish a diagram free](https://app.display.dev/) · Free plan: 3 gated documents · No card required · Unlimited viewers